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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 16
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Moab is condemned and her people shall sorrow—Messiah shall sit on David’s throne, seeking judgment and hasting righteousness.
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Send</span> ye the lamb to the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Send an appeal to the king of Judah, who then ruled also Edom.">ruler</a> of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
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For it shall be, <i>that,</i> as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, <i>so</i> the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 21: 13 (13-28).">Arnon</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/3a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB Give counsel. This begins Moab’s appeal to Judah (v. 3-5).">Take</a> counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; be thou a covert for Moab.">Let</a> mine <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/16/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 4: 16.">outcasts</a> dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
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And in <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 48: 47 (46-47).">mercy</a> shall the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/16/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Millennial Reign.">throne</a> be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/16/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Haste.">hasting</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/16/5d" mark="d" type="A" title="Mosiah 2: 11 (11-14).">righteousness</a>.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="Beginning of Judah’s reply, declining Moab’s appeal.">We</a> have heard of the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/16/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Pride.">pride</a> of Moab; <i>he is </i>very proud: <i>even</i> of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: <i>but</i> his lies <i>shall</i> not <i>be</i> so.
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Therefore shall Moab <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 48: 20 (20, 31).">howl</a> for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/16/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 3: 25.">Kir</a>-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely <i>they are</i> stricken.
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For the fields of Heshbon languish, <i>and</i> the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come <i>even</i> unto <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 21: 32.">Jazer</a>, they wandered <i>through</i> the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
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&#182; Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 48: 33.">gladness</a> is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in <i>their</i> presses; I have made <i>their vintage</i> shouting to cease.
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Wherefore my <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 15: 5; Jer. 48: 36.">bowels</a> shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
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&#182; And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 101: 7 (7-8).">pray</a>; but he shall not prevail.
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This <i>is</i> the word that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken concerning <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/16/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 2: 1 (1-3).">Moab</a> since that time.
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But now the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant <i>shall be</i> very small <i>and</i> feeble.
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